Quotes About Authority

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.

I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.' - Alexander the Great

I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and that's the kind of authority that writes books.

Do not give little man big power and do not give big man little power!

Words derive their power from the original word.

The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.

Power is neither male or female.

Now you are no longer a giggling child, smiling at whoever comes along. You are a woman with power. Learn to control your smile, and you can control what men will think about you.

We are masters because we have the power to create and to rule our own lives.

The fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This is power that should be shifted back to the states.

Words physically have power to bring things into existence.

The issue of power is not bound to power per se, but often depends on the people themselves, to what extent they unconsciously encourage this power and its structures.

The one power a man has that cannot be stripped from him is the power to do nothing.

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

True Leadership is the authority given by the trust of the followers to use power for the benefit of all.

Power is founded upon opinion.

A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls.

Monster only had the power that you gave them

Governments understand that help is power. That is why governments offer as much help to as many people as they can.

To me, the movie is about power.

I'm a little tired of people who have very big moral positions and very small power in reality.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.